ABSTRACT
Iam a Scottish Episcopalian – that is how I was raised and that is more or less how I am. I love a certain kind of Christian vision. But I have been deeply influenced by Buddhism, and also in some degree by the Vedantic vision of Ramanuja, in the South Indian Hindu tradition. I first encountered Buddhism in Sri Lanka, at the age of twenty, when I was in the army. I came to love it and learn from it. That did not stop me being a Christian, though I had a period as a Marxist when I first went up to Oxford. But during my first long vacation I converted to social democracy and an intense liberalism, largely through reading Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies. To put my vision briefly:
